That lead BNSF engine numbered 4086 is one of my very favorite paint schemes, probably because of the many, many hours I spent playing Microsoft Train Simulator as a kid.
Awesome video, Danny! The coal train could've been out of bostwick due to the bethgons on him. Great catches, another way of showing how awesome Jax simply is.
Excellent video. Took me back to that weekend when I was there checking out the train show and watching trains at Folkston, then catching those trains on the way back the next day.
Sir, I've been wathching your vids forever, you are awesome, I live in jax and railfan it and you did awesome!!! Thanks for a all these years of great train tips!
Another great and high quality video Danny! Thank you very much for the time and dedication! It's awesome to watch these videos with my brand new pair of Beats Solo 2s. The engines sound amazing!
Hey Danny! I just finished watching one of your old VHS tapes, Trains of the bone valley. I've watched this for years and never realized it was you! Thank you for all the great vids!!
Another fantastic job, Danny. You must have been exhausted with all that running around you did that weekend :) Thank you for the wonderful audio quality too. The stereo effect on the big stereo really made it sound like we were there with you.
+Distant Signal Well done once again Danny! I speculate those BNSF GE's came in or were heading out toward New Orleans after doubling their train. Those Union Pacific engines on that light engine move, were they just coming in on an earlier train from New Orleans or were they heading out as well?
I live right between the GF&A fork, the line heading north goes to Bainbridge, Ga., the mainline heads west to New Orleans. Danny, did a segment, railfanning the Tallahassee sub.
As always, another great production. That Rose Lake yard you mentioned is the furthest Eastern point of CSX and terminates at the KCS Willows interlocking and the Terminal Railroad. That Kinder Morgan train most likely would have ended up on Terminal Property as we switch that facility near the Miller Yard in downtown St. Louis very near the Anheuser-Busch Brewery. Thanks for another great video.
You caught a rare occurrence, the frost on the grass. Well you captured mother natures most beautiful flower. A frost flower. Be proud of yourself for that fine catch.
+Distant Signal these are a rare and beautiful phenomena in nature. They form under very very very specific conditions and are the shortest bloom lasting till touched or the temp rises slightly. Looks pretty cold for florida on that day. Our high here today was 21 with a low of -2 and lots of snow.
Love the video Danny! The video intro reminded me that I actually still have a lot of my dad's old l&n and seaboard/family lines employee magazines mid 70's-the chessie seaboard merger issue.
"Too cold and windy to hang here..." your killing me Danny! ;) Come on up here to the tundra and we'll show you cold & windy. Q027 is always a 1 am train here but Q025 is a 9 am train and the hottest train on the CE&D. Track workers call 25 the "street walker". Hold him up to long and its 30 days free time. Fantastic video! Always a pleasure to watch & learn. I miss the drone. :)
+Grainexpress Ha!! Yeah I can imagine how it sounds to hear complaining about 35 degree weather. Man I wish we had some right now. High was 86 today in Tampa. Nuts!
Fun fact on the SD40M-2 you caught on Q235: It was actually built as a Southern Pacific SD45 then rebuilt to SD40-2 specs (usually involving replacing the 20 cylinder engine with a 16 cylinder model). The giveaway that its former SP is the horizontal nose headlight. The blank spot between the number boards where the headlight typically is but on the SP, they put a flashing mars light which was removed sometime during the late 80s/early 90s.
0:27 one of the pages of that lines south magazine had a picture of the southern railway using the acl tracks to portsmouth va in my hometown of tarboro! now sadly the line sits abandoned
That SW 1500 is possibly the oldest unit or that thereof CSX has in this area or no? In this climate a lot of the old timers can survive for switching I can assume and this model was the one that went by the first house my parents had when I was 4 or 5 years old serving the fairly new Vermont Railways formed when the Rutland was forced out a handful of years prior. Wishing you and Liz a happy new year and thanks as always.
danny, do you know of any reason why it seems that CSX likes GE locomotives so much, i hardly ever see multiple unit EMD's thanks for any information you can give me on this topic and thanks again for the GREAT videos.
+dougks2008 Good question, Doug. I really didn't explain that part very well. That sign indicated speed limit. 35 for passenger/25 for freight. Just before that sign, coming around that sharp curve it was 15/15 mph.
Awesome! Watched it over and over again. I have one question, as an irregular Jacksonville railfanner myself. Do all NB intermodals come out the south end of the Duval Ramp and then head northwards past Moncrief?
Florida Railfan I'm not positive but I think most go out through Dinsmore Connection to the A Line and others may go out the South end (Duval Connection) if they are picking up traffic from the FEC in Moncrief Yard. Also not positive but I think Q142 goes out the South end of Jax Ramp to the SP Line to Baldwin and makes the turn to the Callahan Sub and back to the A line via Callahan Connection.
Does every GEVO have the same horn? NS and CSX GEVO's have the same do BNSF and UP? I don't know what type of horn it it though. I can name almost any locomotive but can't name horns. lol
Hey Danny, If you could show each location on that map from the beginning as the trains roll toward the camera, that would really help understand how the traffic is flowing. I know it's more editing work but If you could, It would really make it clearer. Thanks for this and all the other vids. You do great work!
Danny, my sons & I always love your videos. As a matter of fact, as soon as my youngest heard your voice he ran over to watch a "Mister Danny Harmon" video. I have a question - a couple of times in this video you mentioned "double" or "doubling." I'm not familiar with this term. Can you explain please? Thanks in advance, and keep up the great work!
+Adrian Breedlove Thanks very much, Adrian! Please tell you sons Merry Christmas for me. The technique doubling is used to put together a large train at a yard. If the train is too large to fit in only one yard track, say 10 thousand feet or more, the first part of the train is pulled out onto the main line, then that whole consist is backed down onto another yard track which has the other part of the train. Then the whole thing is pulled out and departs. You can see trains being "doubled out" at many medium and smaller yards.
Another great video. I live in Jax, and there's never a dull moment for railfans. All I can say is be careful if you decide to film around NS property. NS raildicks are worse cop wannabes than mall security. Now before CSX cut the S line, it was always cool to watch SAL, then later SCL freights passing through Evergreen Cemetery. The track still runs through the cemetery, but its only a local now.
+MrCzechers Yes, gad!! I really wish that was still a main line up there through Evergreen, across the river and on to Kingsland. I'll bet that was crazy territory in SAL days.
+Distant Signal I would visit my Aunt on 44th Street and watched the Passenger trains pick up a little speed prior to the Trout River Swing Bridge. I played all over those RR tracks as a child never giving any thought to safety. One train crew threw me some chalk used to mark box cars. All of them would wave and never once complained about me being to close to the ROW. Those were fond memories back in the 1950s and 60s!
Jerry Sinclair My grandparents lived farther down the tracks, near the crossing at 21st Street. From their yard I'd look down the street, and watch the trains pass. One Thanksgiving day I remember seeing a northbound so long it was crossing 21st Street, and stretched around the curve down to Liberty Street crossing at the same time.
+Shaun Chisholm There are still lots of them in use, but most shippers are using containers now. UPS, Swift, and JB Hunt are still using trailers and probably will be for some time. When I first started railfanning in the '70's trailers was all they had.
That lead BNSF engine numbered 4086 is one of my very favorite paint schemes, probably because of the many, many hours I spent playing Microsoft Train Simulator as a kid.
Awesome video, Danny! The coal train could've been out of bostwick due to the bethgons on him. Great catches, another way of showing how awesome Jax simply is.
Excellent video. Took me back to that weekend when I was there checking out the train show and watching trains at Folkston, then catching those trains on the way back the next day.
Sir, I've been wathching your vids forever, you are awesome, I live in jax and railfan it and you did awesome!!! Thanks for a all these years of great train tips!
Another great and high quality video Danny! Thank you very much for the time and dedication! It's awesome to watch these videos with my brand new pair of Beats Solo 2s. The engines sound amazing!
Hey Danny! I just finished watching one of your old VHS tapes, Trains of the bone valley. I've watched this for years and never realized it was you! Thank you for all the great vids!!
Another fantastic job, Danny. You must have been exhausted with all that running around you did that weekend :)
Thank you for the wonderful audio quality too. The stereo effect on the big stereo really made it sound like we were there with you.
+JRBlood Thanks! Yeah that was a busy weekend but crazy fun. Hope to do it again in about 6 weeks.
+Distant Signal Well done once again Danny! I speculate those BNSF GE's came in or were heading out toward New Orleans after doubling their train. Those Union Pacific engines on that light engine move, were they just coming in on an earlier train from New Orleans or were they heading out as well?
+Colin Mulder if they were heading to New Orleans, they definitely came by my house heading north......Tallahassee Sub.
soulfultenor You live close to that mainline? How close are you?
I live right between the GF&A fork, the line heading north goes to Bainbridge, Ga., the mainline heads west to New Orleans. Danny, did a segment, railfanning the Tallahassee sub.
As always, another great production. That Rose Lake yard you mentioned is the furthest Eastern point of CSX and terminates at the KCS Willows interlocking and the Terminal Railroad. That Kinder Morgan train most likely would have ended up on Terminal Property as we switch that facility near the Miller Yard in downtown St. Louis very near the Anheuser-Busch Brewery.
Thanks for another great video.
+David Schaefer Thanks very much David. That's great info!
My apologies, I need to correct an error. I had meant to say that Rose Lake is the Western most point of the CSX system.
You caught a rare occurrence, the frost on the grass. Well you captured mother natures most beautiful flower. A frost flower. Be proud of yourself for that fine catch.
+Tmax Weather Center Ha! Thanks! I had no idea what I was looking at. Cool.
+Distant Signal these are a rare and beautiful phenomena in nature. They form under very very very specific conditions and are the shortest bloom lasting till touched or the temp rises slightly. Looks pretty cold for florida on that day. Our high here today was 21 with a low of -2 and lots of snow.
Love the video Danny! The video intro reminded me that I actually still have a lot of my dad's old l&n and seaboard/family lines employee magazines mid 70's-the chessie seaboard merger issue.
We need more railfanning videos from Mcquade st. in Jacksonville, FL.
Excellent video Danny! Love the narration, some really cool trains you caught, that CSX MP switcher was my favorite.
You have successfully got two BNSF's leading a train @ 7:54 (departing the yard)! Yaaaaay!!!! That's a good way for the middle of the day.
Great stuff!!! Always entertaining and informative.
"Too cold and windy to hang here..." your killing me Danny! ;) Come on up here to the tundra and we'll show you cold & windy.
Q027 is always a 1 am train here but Q025 is a 9 am train and the hottest train on the CE&D. Track workers call 25 the "street walker". Hold him up to long and its 30 days free time.
Fantastic video! Always a pleasure to watch & learn. I miss the drone. :)
+Grainexpress Ha!! Yeah I can imagine how it sounds to hear complaining about 35 degree weather. Man I wish we had some right now. High was 86 today in Tampa. Nuts!
Great work on chasing those trains! I can't do that where I live unfortunately
Great video, Danny! I'm actually heading to Jax this Tuesday, so your video was timed perfectly.
Very nicely done! I missed you when I was in Bushnell back in August.. But I really hope to get back down there soon!
Fun fact on the SD40M-2 you caught on Q235:
It was actually built as a Southern Pacific SD45 then rebuilt to SD40-2 specs (usually involving replacing the 20 cylinder engine with a 16 cylinder model). The giveaway that its former SP is the horizontal nose headlight. The blank spot between the number boards where the headlight typically is but on the SP, they put a flashing mars light which was removed sometime during the late 80s/early 90s.
Love the variety and editing in this production Danny! Maybe I can make it to the Jax show in 2016.
+SEABOARDSYSTEMfan Thanks Charles. Let me know if you come to Jax this year.
Thanks for the Christmas/ New Years present, Danny. Very much appreciated.
Danny, as usual top flight video! Thanks again for,sharing!
Great video!! Watched it 22 times!!! Cheers Danny!
+Tim Daugherty Wow!! Glad you liked it, Tim! Thanks!
0:27 one of the pages of that lines south magazine had a picture of the southern railway using the acl tracks to portsmouth va in my hometown of tarboro! now sadly the line sits abandoned
That SW 1500 is possibly the oldest unit or that thereof CSX has in this area or no? In this climate a lot of the old timers can survive for switching I can assume and this model was the one that went by the first house my parents had when I was 4 or 5 years old serving the fairly new Vermont Railways formed when the Rutland was forced out a handful of years prior. Wishing you and Liz a happy new year and thanks as always.
It's funny to see Q-027 in Florida, since I work at Midway Airport, which is right by the intermodal yard in Bedford Park
Q027 runs from Chicago to Jacksonville five times a week. One of the very hot trains coming to this territory.
+Brian Ruhlen And it seems that all of those K trains are coming from Chicago as well
9:32 More and powerfans will be after that CEFX Blue SD40M-2 in the lead! But for me to catch was that CSX standard cab dash 8 trailing.
9:38
9:40
9:23 Q235 is FOR WAS a Louibal Kentucky to Tampa Ol Autorack train. I think it’s been cut back to Jax Terminal now.
Danny you need to come rail fan in Minnesota we can go from -30 to 100 degrees . Depend on what month it is.
danny, do you know of any reason why it seems that CSX likes GE locomotives so much, i hardly ever see multiple unit EMD's thanks for any information you can give me on this topic and thanks again for the GREAT videos.
Great video as usual, I enjoyed every second of it!
Is that a track greaser in the foreground of the Dinsmore Connection shot, around the 1:45 second mark?
+Matthew Adams Yes, there a track greaser there now. It used to be on the stem but they moved it up for some reason onto the north leg.
+Distant Signal Thank you, that is what I thought it looked like. I just wanted to be sure I told my son the correct thing.
another great job Danny, I think that's the first time I've seen Q034 doing under 65, lol
I think every crew that ever works Q034 has heard the Getcha Fired phrase. "make them late and it'll Getcha Fired"
+Brian Ruhlen that phrase applies more to the dispatcher not the crew lol
great video as usually danny, im waiting for the next video
Question for you, Danny at the @3:23 mark, what does the 30/25 sign mean? anything special?
+dougks2008 Good question, Doug. I really didn't explain that part very well. That sign indicated speed limit. 35 for passenger/25 for freight. Just before that sign, coming around that sharp curve it was 15/15 mph.
ah i see. interesting. Thanks danny!
Awesome! Watched it over and over again. I have one question, as an irregular Jacksonville railfanner myself. Do all NB intermodals come out the south end of the Duval Ramp and then head northwards past Moncrief?
Florida Railfan I'm not positive but I think most go out through Dinsmore Connection to the A Line and others may go out the South end (Duval Connection) if they are picking up traffic from the FEC in Moncrief Yard. Also not positive but I think Q142 goes out the South end of Jax Ramp to the SP Line to Baldwin and makes the turn to the Callahan Sub and back to the A line via Callahan Connection.
Man I juss Love Your Videos!
we didn't see you in February! lol hope you're good Danny, we'll be waiting for your next movie :)
Fantastic Video as always Danny!
Is that Kinder Morgan's empty oil K476 with the UP engines on the head end?
Happy New Year Danny and your family to.
I get stopped by lots of CSX intermodal traffic. There very busy at this time of year.
Q027 and its siblings 25 and 26 is probably the train I usually see the most on the S&NA sub.
You got Q235 with a CEFX leaser and a CSX in elephant style. :-)
Awesome Video, Danny!
Does every GEVO have the same horn? NS and CSX GEVO's have the same do BNSF and UP? I don't know what type of horn it it though. I can name almost any locomotive but can't name horns. lol
Yes. The K5HL is the horn that comes standard on GEVOs. All unmodified GEVOs have them regardless of the railroad company.
Hey Danny, If you could show each location on that map from the beginning as the trains roll toward the camera, that would really help understand how the traffic is flowing. I know it's more editing work but If you could, It would really make it clearer.
Thanks for this and all the other vids. You do great work!
surprised the csx yard switcher wasn't a genset unit
Nice work, Danny!
I live very close to Disnmore in Jacksonville! I cross the trout river crossing every day! Let me know someday if you're railfaning there.
Danny, my sons & I always love your videos. As a matter of fact, as soon as my youngest heard your voice he ran over to watch a "Mister Danny Harmon" video.
I have a question - a couple of times in this video you mentioned "double" or "doubling." I'm not familiar with this term. Can you explain please? Thanks in advance, and keep up the great work!
+Adrian Breedlove Thanks very much, Adrian! Please tell you sons Merry Christmas for me. The technique doubling is used to put together a large train at a yard. If the train is too large to fit in only one yard track, say 10 thousand feet or more, the first part of the train is pulled out onto the main line, then that whole consist is backed down onto another yard track which has the other part of the train. Then the whole thing is pulled out and departs. You can see trains being "doubled out" at many medium and smaller yards.
Another great video. I live in Jax, and there's never a dull moment for railfans. All I can say is be careful if you decide to film around NS property. NS raildicks are worse cop wannabes than mall security. Now before CSX cut the S line, it was always cool to watch SAL, then later SCL freights passing through Evergreen Cemetery. The track still runs through the cemetery, but its only a local now.
+MrCzechers Yes, gad!! I really wish that was still a main line up there through Evergreen, across the river and on to Kingsland. I'll bet that was crazy territory in SAL days.
+Distant Signal I would visit my Aunt on 44th Street and watched the Passenger trains pick up a little speed prior to the Trout River Swing Bridge. I played all over those RR tracks as a child never giving any thought to safety. One train crew threw me some chalk used to mark box cars. All of them would wave and never once complained about me being to close to the ROW. Those were fond memories back in the 1950s and 60s!
Jerry Sinclair My grandparents lived farther down the tracks, near the crossing at 21st Street. From their yard I'd look down the street, and watch the trains pass. One Thanksgiving day I remember seeing a northbound so long it was crossing 21st Street, and stretched around the curve down to Liberty Street crossing at the same time.
It’s funny I see q034 all the time up in Newark DE
Great video Danny!
danny, what is kinder morgan and what do they do with all the ethanol? thanks.
I loved it Danny.
(09:25) CSX train Q235 with CEFX #3131 and CSX #7493 in elephant style.
Where is part one? lol
My daughter lives in Jacksonville,where is the best place to watch train?
Hey, You Sound Familiar! You Narrate New York Central Odyssey And Others In GreenFrogVideos!
+Jaxs C. Nope. Never did any Green Frog videos. I've done some for Herron Rail, though.
Great video! If I may ask, what video editing software do you use?
+Red Raider Railfan Productions I am using Final Cut pro X on a late 2011 iMac. Easiest and fastest software I've used so far.
9:38 i think thats a ex conrail c40-8
45 seconds of ads. But I like the new 60fps camera.
Nice, all 4 powers in one day.
Nice catch on the UP, BNSF, and CEFX power!
The tofc trailers are starting to become extinct?
+Shaun Chisholm There are still lots of them in use, but most shippers are using containers now. UPS, Swift, and JB Hunt are still using trailers and probably will be for some time. When I first started railfanning in the '70's trailers was all they had.
Thank you for reply!
Sometime ull have to explain all the letters in the locomotives
Christopher Lindgren What do you mean?
CSX Florida Funnel Railfan well, sd40-2
But the others sd70ace?
Or others with all letters
Thanks ,
I see trains in Ocala, love there
like this video keep them coming
Danny, as a rail fan who can't get out any more, in nursing home, vidal are much appreciated. RUSS GRUNERT OUT
I live in New Jersey
CSXT 1153 FEC Transfer Y108
I do not care what all the Call sign B.S. is. Now about just the Year built.
HORN ABUSE FTW
TH-cam siggys?
Do you have to have a car to ride Auto Train?